Question

Please answer the following question completely & correctly. Please write neatly.

1. In your own words please write a paragraph (250-500 words) for each of these subparts. The following relates to human population:

a. Can we solve world hunger? If so How? If not Why?

b. Can we control population growth? If so How? If not Why?

c. Can we eliminate poverty? If so How? If not Why?

Answer 1

Can we solve world hunger? If so How? If not Why?

World hunger refers to the hunger aggregated to global level. Yes, We can control world hunger. Some of the solution are:

(a) Providing credit: Providing access to credit, enables people to start companies related to farms. This provides a sustainable provision for people and also help in the country's economical growth.

(b) Donation for food: Donation both in the form of cash and food, help organizations to provide accessibility to food for needy.

(c) Sustainable food: Creating awareness among public and also funding them so that they can provide food to themselves.     

(d) Empowering families: Finding ways so that empower families so that they can be self-sufficient. Thus, they can be transformed from state of poverty to state of self sufficient.

(d) Education; Education provides access to food and income.

(e) Government support: Support extended by government in the form of various scheme which enables to provide food to people under poverty.

(f) Empowering Women: Educating and empowering women helps them to have an access to income, food and change the financial condition of family.

(g) Control on population: Awareness about birth control measures would help to control population and thus curb poverty.

Can we control population growth?

Yes. Population control requires measures to be taken like:

(a) Spreading Education: Education can change the way couples think about family. They can look forward to small family and become healthy conscious by avoiding frequent pregnancy.

(b) Adoption: Adoption helps an orphan child in getting a bright future and also curb population growth.

(c) Empowering women: Educating and empowering women would help them to take their own decision and become more health conscious so that they can avoid unnecessary pregnancies.

(d) Delaying marriage: Increasing the minimum age of marriage would reduce child marriage. This would make couples more aware about the consequences of giving birth to many children.

(e) Easy and cheap availability of contraceptives: Easy availability of contraceptives would reduce unnecessary pregnancy and would curb birth rate.

(f) Increasing standard of living: Increase in standard of living would help to help to reduce poverty and thus reduce child labour, child trafficking and child beggers as poor people believe more number of child means more number of hands for earning.  

(g) Providing incentives: Incentives provided by government like a certain percentage of tax relief if having not more than two child helps society to look towards small family norms.

Can we eliminate poverty?

Yes poverty can be eliminated by working towards the following measures:

(a) Creating jobs:Creation of more jobs would provide population an access to income and thus help to curb poverty.

(b) Promoting pay equality: Providing equal pay to both woman and man would motivate woman to opt for full time work and thus increase the family standard of living.

(c)Raisin the minimum wage: Steps taken by government to raise the minimum wage to be paid would help to raise the standard of living.

(d) Education: Education is the most powerful tool to jobs. This would provide access to income and thus reduce poverty.

(e) Training in farming and use of unused land: This would provide mode of income to rural population and thus reduce poverty.

(f) Controlling population growth: Population control would increase the concept of small family and thus reduce the number of mouths to be fed. This will curb population growth.